Tim Lamb wrote in
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In message , The
Medway Handyman writes
Asked to sort out a blocked downpipe on a hotel today. Cast iron pipe
coming down from roof into a hopper, then a smaller diameter pipe down
to the ground.

Piggin plastic drinks bottle had somehow entered the top pipe at roof
level & become jammed in the hopper. Top of the bottle was inside the
top pipe, bottom wouldn't go any further into the lower pipe.

Spent half an hour prodding, hacking, pulling to no avail. Finally
managed to get a piece of string around the neck & attacked the bottle
with a hot air paint stripper gun. After a few mins it started to
buckle & shrink the point where I could pull it out.

I was going to leave the hot air gun off the van since I don't use it
much

How else can you fit plastic hose to a spigot, bend plastic conduit,
dry out abrasive paper, speed up glue setting and even strip tiny
areas of paint?


With a blowlamp of course.Plus boil up water for tea

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